Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... called , in a famous phrase , the complex fate of being an American . By that , James meant the continuously ambivalent relation- ship of the American to the Old World , with its fluctuations , often rapidly alternating , of rejection ...
... called , in a famous phrase , the complex fate of being an American . By that , James meant the continuously ambivalent relation- ship of the American to the Old World , with its fluctuations , often rapidly alternating , of rejection ...
Page 92
... called Fiesta in England , and A Farewell to Arms ( 1929 ) , together with one or two later stories . His later fiction tends either to degenerate into imitation of his earlier , the Hemingway hero merging as it were into the ' Papa ...
... called Fiesta in England , and A Farewell to Arms ( 1929 ) , together with one or two later stories . His later fiction tends either to degenerate into imitation of his earlier , the Hemingway hero merging as it were into the ' Papa ...
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... called the Cabala , ' a group of people ' , as another American describes them , ' losing sleep over a host of notions that the rest of the world has outgrown several centuries ago : one duchess's right to enter a door before another ...
... called the Cabala , ' a group of people ' , as another American describes them , ' losing sleep over a host of notions that the rest of the world has outgrown several centuries ago : one duchess's right to enter a door before another ...
Contents
British I | 1 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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